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adeterminerUS /ə/
used before a singular noun to mean one of a group, when it is not a particular one
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
afterprepositionUS /ˈæftər/
later than; following
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
all
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
also
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
alteration
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
althoughnounUS /ˈalthough/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
andconjunctionUS /ənd/
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
areauxiliary verbUS /ɑːr/
the form of “be” used with you, we, they, or a plural noun
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
asconjunctionUS /æz/
at the same time that; because; in the way that
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
atmosphere
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
away
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
beenauxiliary verbUS /bɪn/
the past participle of “be”
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
beforeprepositionUS /bɪˈfɔːr/
earlier than; in front of
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
blow
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
brings
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
buried
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
business
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
ButconjunctionUS /bʌt/
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
calamity
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
certain
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
changed
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
changes
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
Chatty
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
circumstances
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
coloured
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
commonplace
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
convulsions
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
deadnounUS /dead/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
doors
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
dreadfuladjectiveUS /ˈdrɛdfəl/
extremely frightening or unpleasant
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
duringprepositionUS /ˈdʊrɪŋ/
all through a period, or at some point within it
From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
eachdeterminerUS /iːtʃ/
every one of two or more people or things, taken separately
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
everythingpronounUS /ˈevriθɪŋ/
all things; all of a situation
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
external
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
fallen
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
family
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
firstnounUS /first/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
fromprepositionUS /frʌm/
showing where something starts, or who sent it
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
funeral
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
give
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
goes
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
gone
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
got
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
hadauxiliary verbUS /hæd/
the past form of “have”, used to form the past perfect
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
harmony
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
hasauxiliary verbUS /hæz/
the form of “have” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
How
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
inprepositionUS /ɪn/
inside something, or within a place, period, or state
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
increase
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
isauxiliary verbUS /ɪz/
the form of “be” used with he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
itpronounUS /ɪt/
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
lifenounUS /life/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
Minnie
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
moment
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
morningnounUS /morning/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
most
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
natural
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
new
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From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
ofprepositionUS /ʌv/
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
onprepositionUS /ɑːn/
touching and supported by a surface
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
other
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From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
out
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
overprepositionUS /ˈoʊvər/
above and across; more than
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
painful
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
perhaps
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
place
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
realise
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
renewal
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
rose
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From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
said
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From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
samenounUS /same/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
secondary
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
shock
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
soul
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
stillnounUS /still/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
strange
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From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
terriblenounUS /ˈterrible/
a story-specific word describing an important person, object, action, or idea in this passage
From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
thatconjunctionUS /ðæt/
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
ThedeterminerUS /ðə/
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
theirdeterminerUS /ðer/
belonging to the people or things already mentioned
From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
thesedeterminerUS /ðiːz/
the plural of “this”: the people or things near, or just mentioned
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
theypronounUS /ðeɪ/
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
things
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From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
thisdeterminerUS /ðɪs/
used for a person or thing that is near, or that has just been mentioned
From this reading How strange it is to realise, after the first blow has fallen, that this changed life is still the same!
thoughtnounUS /thought/
an important story-specific word used in this passage
From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
toparticleUS /tuː/
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
uponprepositionUS /əˈpɑːn/
a formal word for “on”
From this reading The morning rose, as they had said to each other, upon a new life.
visionary
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From this reading But when the shock, the dreadful business of the moment, is all over, when the funeral has gone away from the doors and the dead has been buried, and everything goes on as before, this commonplace renewal is, perhaps, the most terrible of all to the visionary soul.
week
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
WhenconjunctionUS /wen/
at the time that
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
whichpronounUS /wɪtʃ/
used to introduce a clause giving more about a thing just mentioned
From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
withprepositionUS /wɪð/
in the company of; together with
From this reading When it brings with it external changes, family convulsions, the alteration of external circumstances, although these secondary things increase the calamity, they give it also a certain natural atmosphere; they are in painful harmony with it.
work
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From this reading Minnie and Chatty got out their work,--the coloured work, which they had thought out of place during the first week.
